I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. Hey, first of all, I just want to thank all of the subscribers to To the Contrary for filling out the reader survey.

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Okay, you're stuck with me today because this is the solo podcast, and many of you have sent me questions, and they are all over the field.

We're going to be talking about Donald Trump's executive order on mail-in balloting.

We're going to get to that, the future of NATO, Christy Noem's husband. Now, some of you're going to say,

Trello, Trilley, you're better than that. No, I'm not. We're going to talk about Christy Noem's husband.

Pete Higgsith and that flyover with Kid Rock. Somebody said, why did Donald Trump call Tiger Woods

after his latest drunk driving incident? Interesting question. Will Donald Trump be able to

claim victory? And are there really fascists out there? We better get to it today.

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Where should we start?

Actually, speaking of the newsletter, yesterday was April 1st, and as a public service announcement, I know that you probably already saw this, but as a public service announcement, I had to say, you might be tempted to think that certain stories in the paper or in the media are April Fool's jokes, and they are not.

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